How Marvel’s latest taps into the hopes and fears of a new generation Spider-Man: Far From Home has swung into theaters. And just like Peter Parker, it has a great responsibility: It must simultaneously bridge viewers into the next big phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, tie up any lingering questions about the events of Avengers: Endgame, and function as a standalone story for Spider-Man In general, it’s up to the task. But what’s most intriguing about Far From Home might be the way it connects to our world. So four members of Vox’s culture team — Alex Abad-Santos, Allegra Frank, Emily VanDerWerff, and Alissa Wilkinson — sat down to talk about how Far From Home comments on and reflects our “post-truth” era, not least because it seems keenly interested in the next generation, in more ways than one.